Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-05

gould have carried. The cold weather kept
the people from the polls in the country dis
tricts
Miss Nutter, q New Bedford, Mass,
teacher has created q sensation in that town by
washing the faces of pupils as form or pun
ishment Some of the little ones say that their
heads have been held under faucet for
minutes at a time.
It is not alone in the west that real es-
tate is having boom. Bradstree's reports q
rapid rise of values in New York, Philadelphia
Brooklyn and other eastern cities. he east
ern papers, however, speak OF a legltimate IN
crease of values in the east but OF Wlld booming
in the west.
A certain current slang phrase has been
traced to no less person than John Bunyan.
In the "Pilgrims Progress" occurs the passage:
"When 1t is cold day for them in the nation
then they lurk in their hedges, though their o.,
dinances lie there as leaves that are dry ana
fallen down from the tree.
The courts nave already decided that
bicycles and tricycles are vehicles, but bill
designating them as such and giving them
pending before the New York Legislator. The
Wheemen of that state think 1t is just to have
all the law possible on their side when some
country urchin tries to stop them by ninglhE
stick at their machines.
Count Zawaski spent last Friday night
| In a police station at Washina ton. He was
born In 1871, served In the French army under
Napoleon was eXiled for co spiracy came to
years as drillmaster at West Point when the
| civil war broke out he enlisted and served In
| Penns ylvania regiment II is seeking admls-
sion to the soldiers nome at the capital
In Russia, on the northern railways,
| the locomotives hitherto burning wood or coal
| are being adapted for peat burning. the saving
being e. imated at some 90 per ceut. In many
| places the peat is cut by hand achines, bat
| these although cheap and ease to work, have
the drawback that the peat can't be worked be-
| low eight feet, whereas the peat ting ma
| chines worked by steam power penetrate
| twenty feet. and reach the lower, dens7r layers
of peat, which, owing to their superior quallty,
| command higher price in the market.
A foreign scientific paper gives the fol-
lowing method of making NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.:
Gelat'ne OF good quality is dissolved In It's own
weight of water, the operation b ling conducted
in a dark room. To the solution IL per &c at
of bichromate of potash is added, which has
been previously dissolved in little water. a
quantity of very fine emery equal TO nine times
the weight of the gelatine, is intimate mixed
| with the gelatine sOlutien, PulVeriZe0 Hint
may be substituted for emery. The mass is
moulded into any desired shape, ana Is the9
consolidated by heavy pressure. 1t Is orleG
by exposure to strong sunlight for several
hours.
Governor Ross of New Mexico has four
men under sentence of death on his hands, anC
he appears to be unwilling to issue the war
rants for their execution. One of the male
,ctors has an interesting history. me others
are common frontier murderers. Theodore
BAKER, awaiting death at SPRINGER, mas alIeIul
been hanged once, ana this circumstance ha
caused thousands of people to petition for {
Communication IN his case. Soon after the muir
der of which he has been convicted hi
was seized by a mob and lynChed, but thu
sheriff at Springer cut him down ant
conveyed his remains to the jail, where sue
cessful effort at resuscitatiOn was made. Tn
second night the prisoner was conveyed u
Santa Fe, where he fingered In weak physlca
and mental condition for several weeks. Their
an improvement began, and when he was re
stored to health he was placed on trial and duI
convicted Baker has graphically described
his sensations while hanging, and 1t ts unoer
stood that he has serious objections to under
going the experience again.